Offshore wind
The US federal government is working to stymie offshore wind power, but proponents aren’t going quietly. Armed with data, they are taking on a sea of misinformation and hostility to defend the burgeoning resource in the US, while the rest of the world moves ahead briskly.
TotalEnergies will instead invest in the Rio Grande LNG plant, upstream conventional oil development in the US Gulf of Mexico, and shale-gas production.
The project, which is owned and run by Equinor offshore New York, is more than 60% complete.
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The lease area has the potential to support enough offshore wind power to run more than 1 million homes. -
The gathering’s goal is to install 120 GW of wind power in the North Sea by 2030.
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An EU project is bringing together 15 partners from seven countries to work on designing and manufacturing superconducting cables to enable more efficient and less costly power transmission from renewable electricity generation sites.
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The Department of the Interior announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will publish a proposed rule to update regulations for clean energy development on the US Outer Continental Shelf.
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Although 2022 did not match 2021’s record of over 19.5 GW of online capacity, 2022 witnessed the second highest amount of global online capacity with almost 8.5 GW. Final investment decisions (FIDs) were taken on over 11.5 GW of projects, making it the fourth highest year for FIDs.
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Energy firm Vattenfall has conducted large-scale seabed surveys with uncrewed surface vessels. The company reports positive results, from both climate and safety aspects.
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Rights to five lease tracts offshore California have been awarded to five separate operators.
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The power from the first turbine to come online will be used to help run the Gullfaks A platform in the North Sea. Seven of the 11 turbines in the field are expected to begin producing power within a year.
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This paper presents a summary of the results of a study of the potential for repurposing legacy oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico for uses in a blue economy.
